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Not exactly. These lines of cells weren't created from scratch. From the article: > Scientists at JCVI constructed the first cell with a synthetic genome in 20
by TimTheTinker 6y ago
Not exactly. These lines of cells weren't created from scratch. From the article:
> Scientists at JCVI constructed the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. They didn’t build that cell completely from scratch. Instead, they started with cells from a very simple type of bacteria called a mycoplasma. They destroyed the DNA in those cells and replaced it with DNA that was designed on a computer and synthesized in a lab. This was the first organism in the history of life on Earth to have an entirely synthetic genome. They called it JCVI-syn1.0.
- maverick74 6y agoExactly what i was writing!!! :) Now, i guess that - like last time - we're going to have news everywhere claiming that scientists "created life" (again). LOL
- booleandilemma 6y agoThose gaps keep getting smaller and smaller though, don't they?
- thereisnospork 6y agoI'm curious if they are going to 'ship of Theseus' it. First replace the dna, done, then the lipid membrane, then feed it C13 labelled amino acids to prove that the entirety of the cell proteom is from their synthetic genes. Not quite creating life but definitely hijacking it.
- dnautics 6y agoNot specifically with C13, but that is what is going on.
- dnautics 6y ago"Hello World" isn't exactly created from scratch either. You're using libc in most cases.
- tambourine_man 6y agoSomeone wrote it though. It’s not a blackbox that’s evolved independently for millions of years. We as a species know how to build one, since we did.
- blakesley 6y agoI suppose this makes sense, but at a personal level, the two scenarios seem similar. Interpreters & compilers are blackbox to me, at least. I have no idea how they work, and I wouldn't be able to make one for myself. But sure, someone could teach me.
- neolog 6y agoI can build libc all by myself from source
- therein 6y agoOr more closely, give me the .o files for my architecture, I somewhat understand the calling convention used. I should be able to make use of it.